Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro’s violent repression of student protesters has been so egregious that socialist members of his own party are turning against him. A longtime Party member and governor of one of the more afflicted regions of Venezuela called
More than one hundred of Venezuela’s most prominent beauty queens have founded a group to protest the government’s inability to stop and, in many cases, propensity to foment violence in their country. “Misses4Peace” released a video with messages attacking the
The tug of war in the New Jersey legislature between Republicans who want to reduce spending and Democrats who want to raise taxes begins today. Governor Chris Christie is set to unveil the year’s new budget Tuesday, with an unprecedented
Only half of New Jerseyans approve of the job Governor Chris Christie is doing, a full 20-point drop in approval since last year. This from the latest poll out of the state from Monmouth University and the Asbury Park Press,
The badly timed New York Times Magazine profile of Texas Democratic gubernatorial candidate Wendy Davis may have called her biographical falsehoods “politically exquisite,” but to the public editor of the newspaper, it was not enough to prevent the piece from being
The economic condition of New Jersey has declined significantly during the tenure of Governor Chris Christie, with the state reaching record levels of debt in 2013. Governor Christie is set to propose an annual budget to the state tomorrow, one
Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro has a heap of problems: images of his thugs attacking unarmed protesters across the globe, John Kerry’s “concern” about his disregard for human rights, and his only friend being Bashar Al-Assad. But Maduro has chosen to attack
New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio’s record with the city’s parents appears to be only getting worse. After catching grief for making children trek to school during a blizzard earlier this month, the New York Post reports that the
The violent repression of anti-socialist student activists in Venezuela continues, with Nicolás Maduro increasingly desperate to quell the uprising against his post-Chávez regime. While rallies around the world called for an end to the violence, the death toll rose to
CNN’s Candy Crowley hosted a round table of governors to debate everything from the death penalty to health care reform. While the governors – Dan Malloy of Connecticut, Jay Nixon of Missouri, Rick Perry of Texas, and Mike Pence of Indiana –
Establishment Republicans are still seeing the upside to New Jersey Governor Chris Christie, despite the many scandals that came to Trenton in 2014. Almost two months removed from the initial Bridgegate revelations, Christie is appearing at a Republican Governors Association
A judge in Newark, New Jersey, dismissed a lawsuit against the New York City Police Department for having spied on Muslim Americans at mosques, restaurants, and schools. The judge found that spying on individuals for their Muslim faith was a logical step
Secretary of State John Kerry had some stern words for the socialist leadership of Venezuela yesterday, warning that the violent repression of the opposition was “unacceptable.” President Nicolás Maduro took to Twitter this weekend to denounce “insolent” “threats of violence”
2013 was a banner year for uncalled for expansion of China’s borders, from the Senkaku Islands Air Identification Defense Zone to a state TV show claiming the entirety of the Philippines for China. But on the economic front, China plans
Human Rights Foundation Chairman Garry Kasparov has been a consistent voice against the aggression of Russian premier Vladimir Putin, and on Thursday night on Twitter he made his dissatisfaction with Obama’s passive approach to the situation in Ukraine strikingly clear: “How
As Thursday’s first town hall after the incident proved, Bridgegate is the least of New Jersey’s worries. The biggest might be the economy. After promising to reduce spending and return New Jersey to some semblance of fiscal responsibility, Christie has
Bill de Blasio is being hit from all sides of the political spectrum for his multiple failures as a mayor, from forcing small children to brave a blizzard to the fact that no one in City Hall seems to know
When the world needs a rest from the shocking images of Kiev, it has stopped and stared in awe at the violence of Nicolás Maduro’s dictatorship in Venezuela and the arrest of political prisoner Leopoldo López. But not everyone sees
“CNN’s programming, 24 hours a day, is war programming,” the likely illegitimate Venezuelan president boomed yesterday afternoon. In a public appearance with the state’s bus drivers, Nicolás Maduro promised to “kick them out of Venezuela” for trying to “show the world
Thursday, New Jersey Governor Chris Christie held his first town hall since the revelation that senior members of his office had closed down part of the most trafficked bridge in the country for political retribution. The bridge incident never came up
Venezuela’s largest newspaper El Universal reports that, while President Nicolás Maduro might not be especially popular in his own country, he at least still has a friend in Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad. The Syrian leader reportedly sent a telegram to
The latest string of violent attacks on peaceful protesters by the Venezuelan government came to a head last night as reports and videos on social media surfaced of special forces attacking young protesters on the streets and raiding student residential
The Democrats’ attempt to use the Affordable Care Act to win over Latino voters across the country continues to backfire. California officials tell The New York Times that the “No. 1 priority” of the state healthcare exchange, to sign up Latin Americans,
The sun rose on Thursday to what may be the bloodiest day in Ukraine since negotiations with Russia triggered mass protests in the capital of Kiev. Hours after President Viktor Yanukovych announced a truce with opposition leaders, CNN reported that “at
Healthcare industry lobbyists connected with the Republican establishment in Washington are making a concerted effort to sink the campaign of the Nebraska Republican who has been branded the “anti-Obamacare candidate,” Breitbart News has learned. Ben Sasse, a young university president
